The menu looked only the size of a page, Yan Xun read it several times from beginning to end and didn't know what to eat, and after struggling for a long time, she ordered a sweet and sour tenderloin, and then pushed the menu to me.

"Add another boiled fish, two rice!"

At this time, two figures walked in outside the door, just in the blink of an eye, and the air in the restaurant suddenly became quiet, everyone was staring at the two people, and no one spoke.

I turned my head to look and realized that it was the old woman and her son that I had accidentally seen on the road that day, and the whole restaurant seemed to be very repulsive to the two of them.

This time I saw the old woman's appearance clearly, a pair of eyes sunken on her sallow face stared blankly at a certain place, the passage of time had tormented her spiritless, and she silently followed behind her son with her head down.

Compared with her, her son, who had a big clean face and was dressed like a person, swaggered in, found a table where no one was, sat down, raised his hand and patted the table and shouted: "Waiter, waiter, order!" ”

The waitress took the menu and went over, only to see her son constantly ordering with his hands, and in a moment it was already five or six dishes out of his mouth.

"Less, you won't be able to finish it in a while!"

The old woman's voice was hoarse and tried to persuade her son.

Who knew that her son directly ignored her words, handed the menu back, and waited for the waiter to serve it.

I looked at them, then at the food on my table, and suddenly lost my appetite.

Fortunately, Yan Xun was not affected, she ate her own rice alone and solved the rice in front of me very enthusiastically.

"Let's go!"

She wiped the corners of her mouth and said.

"Wait!"

I looked over to the old woman, and curiosity drove me to wait a little longer.

The old woman's son devoured the dazzling meals on the table, and his face couldn't help showing a satisfied expression, and the old woman opposite watched her son eat happily, and she kept adding vegetables to her son's bowl, but her own bowl was empty.

After they left, there were fewer and fewer people eating in the restaurant, so I went over with Yan Xun to pay.

"Boss, I want to ask, is this old woman's son not working?"

When the owner of the restaurant heard me ask such a question, he laughed, leaned over and said, "Don't mention it, his son is a waste!" ”

Wreck? I can't understand how a good person with sound limbs can become a wasted person? "What do you mean by that?"

I pressed again.

The boss looked out the door and pulled two chairs for me to sit down and listen, and she sat down in the other chair and began to tell me about the old woman and her son.

"You don't know, this old woman's son! I can't do any work from childhood to adulthood, I can't even wash my pants, I sit there every day to stretch out my hand for food and open my mouth, but don't say it, she really serves his son in place, but now that he is older, his son went out to work and ran back after a while, he can't stand the hard work outside, he eats and drinks at home every day, and gambles with the money that the old woman gets from picking up waste, you say, isn't this just gnawing the old! ”

The more the owner of the small restaurant talked, the more excited he became, and I could tell from her look that this old woman had tolerated what his son had done to a certain extent, or a kind of doting that had no bottom line at all.

On the way back, Yan Xun couldn't understand why I cared so much about this matter, and opened his mouth to ask, "I can see it, do you want to be nosy again?" ”

I thought about it, I was not nosy this time, I was just sympathetic to the old woman's plight, and the son who had raised her for more than 30 years actually came back to eat and drink herself.

That night, I suddenly woke up with a rush of urine, and ran to the toilet outside in a daze, wearing short sleeves.

When I came out, I saw someone standing there in front of the old woman's house opposite, and it seemed that there was another quarrel.

Her son angrily pointed at the old woman's nose and yelled hysterically.

"Give me the money!"

In the face of her son's madness, the old woman behaved very calmly, she didn't take out the money this time, just stood in place, as if waiting for her son to be angry.

"Give me the money, give it to me, you dead old woman!"

As he spoke, his son picked up the old woman's clothes and shook them back and forth like crazy.

The old woman was already old, and her son shook her whole center of gravity unsteadily, and she couldn't stop on tiptoe, as if she was still a little out of breath, but all this was not seen by her son.

Just as she was about to compromise, her son's hands holding her collar flicked it, and the old woman flew straight out, falling heavily to the ground, her head hitting a stone, and blood flowing.

Her son turned around and went straight back to the house, turned the TV up to maximum speed, pretended nothing had happened, and waited for her mother to go back and cook for him.

The old woman lay on the ground alone for a long time before she raised her hand and touched her head, and her hands were full of dazzling red.

"Chuan! Kawa! ”

She was calling her son's name.

The son's television in the house became louder and louder, completely overpowering his mother's call to him.

I was sleepy at the moment, squatting on the edge of the fence at the door to see clearly, the fire in my heart suddenly rushed to my head, not only wanted to clean up this unfilial son, but also wanted to rush over and quickly help the old woman up.

When I couldn't help the pain in my heart and pushed open the door and walked over, his son suddenly came out of the house, and at a glance he saw me ready to help someone.

"What are you doing?"

He asked, picking up a shovel and pointing it at me.

I looked at the old woman on the ground who was getting weaker and weaker, and hurriedly shouted to her son, "Take your mother to the hospital, her wounds are still bleeding!" ”

As soon as he heard that I, an outsider, cared more about his mother than him, he was reluctant at once, and stabbed me with a shovel, scolding and scolding in his mouth.

"You fuck off...... Get out of here! ”

I thought to myself that if I said so, he would help the old lady into the house and bandage the wound.

But the news that came early the next morning made me know that my own ideas often can't replace other people's ideas, and the reality is always cruel.

"Have you heard? The old woman had been killed by her son last night, and she was bleeding all over! ”

"Oops! How can his son's wretch have such great ability, I heard that the old woman wanted to cook for his son at night, and she fell on a stone by herself, and died of excessive blood loss! ”

There was a large group of gossiping people around the entrance of the village, and they said one by one, as if they had nothing to do with themselves, and let one mouth say it.